The mainstream press can and does choose who to highlight, and who to ignore, who to give the benefit of the doubt to, who to paint as hero or villain. None of that is objective journalistic science, just standard choices made every day by people individually and in packs.
The NYT choices often aren't so different from the Fox news choices. The NYT buried it as much as Fox did.
A few years ago, Dapper Nazis were the trendy Style section hit, and punching Nazis was very rude indeed. And here we are today.
